You re watching bbc newsroom live 7 its 10 am and these are the main stories this morning iran vows to take revenge after its most powerful military leader, Qassem Soleimani, was killed on the orders of President Trump in a us airstrike in iraq. The attack on Qassem Soleimani seen as the second most powerful man in iran took place in baghdad last night now the us tells its citizens to leave the country immediately. The Australian Navy has evacuated around 1,000 tourists and residents who were trapped in the fire ravaged town of mallacoota on the victoria coast. Three companies are to pay a total of ten and a half Million Pounds after the power cuts in august which left a million customers without power
and caused travel chaos. In life, as in football, we all go through highs and lows. Also coming up Prince William encourages football fans to look after their Mental Health, in a short film to be played at fa cup matches this weekend. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita
Ending the Stigma Around Mental Health struggles is a goal he has championed. He discussed it with high profile footballers for a special bbc programme in october. Through this campaign, he hopes to bring those passions together again and use football to start the largest ever conversation around Mental Health. Katy austin, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres ben rich. After what has been a gloomy start to 2020, today most of us get to see something a little brighter. This is how it looked in belfast earlier, sunny skies overhead and cloud rolling away east on the satellite picture. Some speckled shower clouds following from the north west but a decent amount of sunshine. We have been bringing in cold air and temperatures have been dropping away as the day has gone on. The coldest air across the far north of
scotland. For many this afternoon it stays dry with sunshine, a few showers for north west england, parts of Northern Ireland and scotland, some showers in scotland win
Ourself. All of that derives massive plastic selfreference. We have to construct and enrich a strongly center itself, a person, in our brain through its changing itself in a powerful, plastic way. Were also constructed through these same processes to attach to the other people, to the other things we are close to in life. That is the basis of the attachment of the mother to the child or the child to the mother. Through millions of the events of contact and interaction, all of those counts in ways that actually grow the child into the person that is the mother. We are constructed to build attachments between mother and child, between friends, across our families, and across our communities. This is something that we have to nourish, that we have to keep alive, that we have to keep healthy. Were constricted to do this in a bridge for by the way our brains are constructed, by the way we are constructed and live our lives. I want to say a special thing about plasticity but that is the son
Acquire a new skill or ability, the brain is actually changing its wiring. Id is actually changing its functionality. Is actually specializing. Answer that specialization, your account for the development of the skill or ability in play. We know this occurs throughout life. In fact commit to the end of life, because we know we can improve our ability and we can acquire a new skill to the end of life. Here we have an older woman who has acquired a skill in later life, basket weaving. We know that because she has developed a special ability at this point in life, she has remodeled her brain, and that accounts for her developing of this expertise. This is in play in our lives and throughout our lives because our lives are so richly varied from Early Childhood onward, we create, through billions of moments of brain change, an incredible individuation of ourselves so that through these changes, we have a special ability is shared by no one else in this room in exact form. We have special kn